Stephen Greco > Quotes

“Oh, but I do have a title,” said Truman. “Answered Prayers.” He said that the quote was attributed to Saint Theresa of Avila: “More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends

“I am an Episcopalian but belong to no congregation and am not a believer in any formal sense, if that’s what you mean. But God and I are on perfectly good terms. And now, if you’ll excuse me”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends

“And we went through AIDS... which was as good a course in mortality as anyone is likely to get, short of war.”
― Stephen Greco

“I told you so. Writers who put words in the mouths of actors know that actors want fun things to say and do. There’s the meaning of the line—the information it adds to the story—then there is the function of the line—the way it makes the actor feel while saying it. That’s what a good actor has to find and play.” “Truman”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends

“ineffable thing that jewels of any price can do: usher you into a miniature theater of visual pleasure that somehow spreads to the whole body and spirit,”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends

“They exist completely detached”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends

“This is what the Church does when it condemns something,” said Truman, clenching a hand and then tightening it into a fist.”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends

“And for me, being suspended in the air, miles above the earth, captive only to rest and to contemplation, is a dream.”
― Stephen Greco, Such Good Friends